Tidbits from Locarno on SF SSR

 The Locarno International Film Festival is taking place for the 60th time from August 1 to 11. Reason enough for Swiss television to celebrate on all channels over the next few months. In June, July and August, the three national SRG SSR Idée Suisse television channels will broadcast around forty films from all genres that have helped shape the history of the festival. As the television company writes in a press release, these include winners of the Audience Award such as "The Full Monty" and "The Syrian Bride", as well as international box office hits such as "The Bourne Identity" and Tim Burton's "The Planet of the Apes". The program also includes numerous films that have won awards at the festival in recent years, including the feature film "Das Fräulein", which will be shown on television for the first time. Swiss director Andrea Staka won the Golden Leopard last year with this highly acclaimed work.